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Windows 7: Booting

I installed Windows 7 on my SSD drive but when I put back my old hard drive which is a SATA 3 with my old Windows 7 and disconnected the SSD drive it wouldn’t boot. I have an older computer that I have 3 hard drives which are removeable drives and they all boot into their OS. So I’m wondering how I can boot back to my old Hard Drive which I made into a removable drive so I can plug it in if I need it?

The bottom line on this computer is I just have to change the boot in the BIOS on which hard drive I want. So if my SSD drive crashes I will insert my other Windows 7 drive which I have in the draw change the boot and I'm back in business. I'm just going to keep the drive as a backup.

Booting

Issue booting Win 7, booting directly into XP & no boot managerHi,
I just got a ASUS G75V series and updated it to windows 7 professional with Intel core i7.
I was able to work with it and everything was fine until I had to install XP because some softwares are not compatible with Win 7 x64.
I have Win 7 on drive C: and windows xp on drive E: which in...

Installation & Setup

Win 7 not booting normallyHi all,
i had a win 7 installed on HP DC7800. It was working fine
I moved the HDD of 7800 to HP 7900
The machine didnt boot at first but after 3 attempts it booted & was working fine
After a week i again removed the same HDD from 7900 and put it into 7800
When i attempted to boot...

General Discussion

HDD not booting upHi,
I'm running Win7 on my PC 24/7, and I suspect that some of my SATA ports are failing. It takes 1-2s in the AHCI detection menu during the bootup to detect my HDDs when plugged into certain SATA ports.
My boot HDD, a WD Caviar Black 2TB, was plugged into a suspected failing port, and when...

BSOD Help and Support

Booting XP cd not possible?I just spent about an hour trying to downgrade my laptop with Windows 7 to Windows XP, using the old fashioned way, but discovered that Windows 7 doesn't allow the setup from XP to run? I cannot manage to start my XP cd over the harrdisc boot.
The reason I want to downgrade to XP again is the...

Installation & Setup

W7 only booting with DVDI did not know where to post it, but since I guess the problem is related to the setup and installation process I'll leave it here, feel free to move the thread though.
I downloaded W7 from DigitalRiver, made a bootable .iso, burned it and started the setup. I then formatted C: where Vista was...

Installation & Setup

Booting Xp VHD on XPM, not possible?Ok so i have created a VHD of my system (dual boot of xp and W7) using Disk2vhd. It's now sitting on my USB HDD which i am able to create a new VM in XPM using that as a HDD. Turned on the VM and everything looks fantastic. Selected windows 7 boot and it booted fine. But when i go to boot Xp it...